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Building resilience from the ground up: local supply and demand management with renewables, prosumers, energy efficiency, critical minerals, and the circular economy

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This chapter examines the extent to which exposure to disruption can be reduced by local provision and demand-side measures, as to energy and minerals. In relation to energy it considers renewables, electrification, and demand-side measures, as capable of adding local supply and improving resilience. Dependence on supply chains is also reduced by increasing energy efficiency. In relation to minerals the chapter examines changing needs for industrial inputs, real and perceived threats to mineral supplies, and the role of critical minerals policies. It considers the value of circular economy policies that can reduce dependence on primary raw materials. It concludes that resilience should be identified as a purpose to be pursued in energy measures for renewables, electrification, local supply, and efficiency; and that critical minerals policies and circular economy policies are likely to have increasing legal significance.
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Barton, B. (2022). Building resilience from the ground up: local supply and demand management with renewables, prosumers, energy efficiency, critical minerals, and the circular economy. In Banet, C., Mostert, H., Paddock, L., Montoya, M. F., & del Guayo, I. (Eds.), Resilience in Energy, Infrastructure, and Natural Resources Law Examining Legal Pathways for Sustainability in Times of Disruption (pp. 327-341). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192864574.003.0020
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2022-03-04
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Oxford University Press
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